Eoborus fusiforme

Eoborus fusiforme is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae, from the Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1]

Eoborus fusiforme
Temporal range: Paleocene[1]
Two views of a fossil shell of Eoborus fusiforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Acavoidea
Family:
Strophocheilidae
Subfamily:
Megalobuliminae
Genus:
†Eoborus
Species:
†E. fusiforme
Binomial name
Eoborus fusiforme
Salvador & Simone, 2013[1]

References
  1. Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46. (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492013000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en)
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